How-To Guides

Every one of these started as a question somebody could not get answered on the phone.

This is the practical side of the site: applications, appeals, FOIA requests, eligibility paperwork, getting paid as a family caregiver, and what to do when a program closes with no notice. Step by step, with the forms named and the deadlines stated. Nothing here promises an outcome. It tells you what the process is and where families most often lose.

Guardianship, Limited Guardianship, and Supported Decision Making

Adult Transition Advocacy Resources Comparison Tools How-To Guides

Guardianship, Limited Guardianship, and Supported Decision Making A decision framework that starts with autonomy and ends with safety, broken down by the life domain that actually matters: medical, finances, housing,...

Adult Transition Advocacy Resources How-To Guides Medicaid

SSI at 18 and the Age-18 Redetermination Why eligibility shifts the day a young adult turns eighteen, why initial denial rates are brutally high, and how to start documentation at...

Adult Transition Advocacy Resources How-To Guides

Healthcare Decisions and Rights at Age 18 The day your child turns eighteen, the law reassigns every healthcare authority you have spent eighteen years building. Here is the punch-list to...

Adult Transition Advocacy Resources How-To Guides

Finding Adult Doctors Who Understand Autism How to vet a primary-care practice, pin them down on accommodations in writing, and walk in with a one-page passport that does the work...

ADA Compliance Adult Transition Advocacy Resources How-To Guides

Trauma-Informed Healthcare for Autistic Adults Why a routine doctor visit can feel like a battle, why the body remembers the last time, and what to bring with you so the...